Bernie Sanders Quotes

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

I will be a President for the middle class.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

I want to help the middle class.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.